LESSON I.
THE SEVENTY IN THREE DISPENSATIONS.
| ANALYSIS. | REFERENCES. |
| I. The Seventy in the Mosaic Dispensation. 1. The Seventy Chosen. 2. Their Spiritual Powers. 3. Was the Sanhedrin a perpetuation of the Seventy. | Exodus xxiv:xi; Number xi:16, 25. Note 1. |
| II. The Seventy of the Christian Dispensation.
1. Organization of Quorums. 2. Commission and Spiritual Powers. | Luke x:1-24, Smith's Bible Dictionary[1] Art. "Seventy Disciples."[2] Edersheim's "Jesus the Messias," Vol. II, Chap. v. Eccl. Hist., Eusebius, Chap. xii. Students' Eccl. Hist. pp. 17, 18. Notes 2, 3. |
| III. The Seventy in the Dispensation of
the Fulness of Times.
1. The Organization of the First Quorum. 2. First Report to the Prophet. 3. Blessed in Kirtland Temple. 4. They lead Zion's Camp to Missouri. 5. Increase in the number of Quorums in Nauvoo and the West, Present Status. | Notes 4, 5, 6, 7. Also History of the Church. Vol. II, 180-2 and notes; Ibid. Chap. xiii and notes. Ibid, p. 221, and note; Ibid, p. 346 (First Report of to the Prophet). Notes 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. |
SPECIAL TEXT: "God could not organize His kingdom with twelve men to open the gospel door to the nations of the earth, and with seventy men under their direction to follow in their tracks, unless he took them from a body of men who had offered their lives, and who had made as great a sacrifice as did Abraham. Now the Lord has got his Twelve and his Seventy, and there will be other quorums of Seventies called, who will make the sacrifice, and those who have not made their sacrifices and their offerings now, will make them hereafter."—JOSEPH SMITH.